ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,499, issued on April 15, was assigned to OPTOS PLC (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

"Multimode eye analyzing system, method and computer-readable medium" was invented by Praveen Ashok (Dunfermline, Great Britain) and Alan Anderson (Dunfermline, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimode optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system comprises a light source arranged to emit coherent light in a path to scan a sample. An optical parameter unit is arranged in the path and is operable in at least one selected mode from among a plurality of available operating modes, including at least a first mode, a second mode and a third ...